The #1 Movie in Italy: Hot White Guys & a some black guy talking bout he's supposed to be free or something.
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How film biz can make a nice man want to kill ppl: MT “: #1Movie in Italy: HOT WHITE GUYS & some black guy ”
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@mrwelchman no but cld make u the brilliantly portrayed by Werner Klemperer dunderheaded comandante of fictional Stalag 13 yes?
@mrwelchman I prefer at least a dash of subversion in my slave narrative soup. Gimme middle passage scene from Roots
@mrwelchman this is how marketing currency of an actor of color is devalued in favor of pandering to ignorance.
@mrwelchman, 'preciate that, & seriously, there's more than 1 way to skin cats & market movies.
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@mrwelchman I understand why they did it, too - I also understand that it's lazy in every respect.
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@mrwelchman foreign audiences as in Nigerian? South African? Ghanaian?
@mrwelchman I'm not entirely convinced that those Italian posters don't reflect something unfortunate & more subliminal in the storytelling.